People v. Bell

Defendant was informed against for the crime of robbery, and upon a trial had was convicted, and *523 judgment of imprisonment in the state prison for a term of ten years was entered, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

One point only is made by appellant as cause for reversal. The information was filed in the superior court in and for the city and county of San Francisco, February 11, 1891. On the thirteenth day of the same month and year the cause was assigned to department 12 of said court, where, on the fourteenth day of February, the defendant was arraigned and given until February 21st to plead, on which last-mentioned day, he having refused to plead, a plea of not guilty was, by order of the court, entered, and the cause continued until February 28th to be set for trial. On the day last mentioned the cause was by consent of parties set for trial on the thirtieth day of March, 1891. Between the date last mentioned and May 7, 1891, the cause was continued some fifteen times; sometimes on motion of defendant, sometimes by consent of parties, and at others the record1 simply shows the cause to have been continued, without specifying the cause therefor, or upon whose…